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Junko Mori
My inspiration comes from the visual impact of an aggregate assembled with many small components.
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Olga and Alexander Florensky: A Moveable Bestiary and Other Objects
Architectural Association, London, in collaboration with White Space Gallery
11 October – 8 November
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Art for Networks
Chapter, Cardiff
28 September – 10 November
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Living and Loving No 1: The Biography of Donald Cappy
Who is Donald Cappy? And why does he deserve a biography? Although every fact you could possibly want to know (or not) about the man is detailed in Living and Loving No1: The Biography of Donald Cappy, this full-colour glossy […]
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Night Bus
Broadmarsh Bus Station, Nottingham
18 October – 3 November
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Perfect Imperfect
Elveden Hall, Suffolk
26 October
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
8 – 12 October
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Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
19 October – 20 November
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Design awards
William Welch’s adaptable cutlery, designed for people with poor grip and restricted movement, won him £16,000 in this year’s Oxo Peugeot Design Awards. Welch was selected from ten finalists covering the five award categories of applied metal design, ceramics/glass/polymers, furniture, […]
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Factories for art
Artists’ studio and workshop complexes come about as much from private endeavour as from public funding. In Newcastle, the Biscuit Factory studios were launched in November, the result of an initiative by local businessmen Ramy Zack and Andy Balman. After […]
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Centre gets Funding
Plans to build a major arts and media facility in the centre of Derby have been boosted by a £87,000 award from the Arts Council of England. This will allow the consortium of organisations behind the project to develop a […]
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Made to order
A high percentage of Jennie Moncur’s work is commissioned. Since 1986, alongside undertaking a range of private commissions, she has built up a portfolio of public works including thirty tapestries; painted fabrics and rugs for Jardine Insurance Brokers; laser-cut linoleum […]
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Art and business collaborate
Amongst the winners of this year’s Arts and Business Awards was a partnership between Ercol Furniture and Sustrans who won the Arts, Business and Community category. Moving to a new factory in Princes Riseborough meant that furniture manufacturers Ercol became […]
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Pay back
David Jeffreys looks at the issue of arts funding and considers whether there’s a catch to the expansion of public spending.
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Best western
Drifting south west to Cornwall, Alan Bleakley describes PALP, an artist-led group committed to experimental, collaborative and socially inclusive projects.
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Conrad Atkinson
With a solo show currently at the Courtauld Institute, Conrad Atkinson talks to Sue Hubbard about the evolution of his career – a practice rooted equally in the political and the personal.
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Mediated journeys
Jose Ferreira introduces us to artists’ imaginative use of technology and its relationship to urban space.
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Fail… to succeed
David Butler reports on the current crop of ground-breaking collaborations between art and science that are giving artists the time to undertake sustained, open-ended research without the expectation of a specific outcome.
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Big red ball
American artist Kurt Perschke reports with an account of his self-organised large inflatables ‘RedBall Project’ in Barcelona.
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Class act
Simon Morrissey takes a look at what the Catalan capital has to offer artists.
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On the waterfront
Marc Rome gives an account of his participation in an international collaborative project on New York’s Staten Island.
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Inroads into Europe
Carolyn Genders shares her experience of European potters’ markets.
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Generating income
Last February Jennifer Vickers completed a two-year residency at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of North West Arts Board’s Setting up Scheme. “During the early stages of this placement I struggled to make any kind of profit from my practice, […]
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Community installation
Last May, C Visual Art conducted a two-week residency at Torre Abbey in Torquay funded by Awards for All. Five artists were involved and by combining the individual skills of the group they produced an installation that focused on the […]
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Why wait to expose yourself
Worcester has recently witnessed the addition of a new £16 million retail development by St Modwen Developments. An arts strategy was included in the planning stages, with new works commissioned and artists consulted as part of the design process. Paul […]
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Seeing it both ways
The Arts and Disability Forum based in Belfast offers grants of up to £5,000 to disabled artists throughout Ireland working in all art forms. Awards are granted for a specific project or body of work. Seeing it both ways is […]
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Stephen Hurrel
I recently completed a public art commission for the new Library and Learning Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University.